Neutrality in twentieth-century Europe : intersections of science, culture, and politics after the First World War / edited by Rebecka Lettevall, Geert Somsen and Sven Widmalm.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Lettevall, Rebecka.
• Somsen, Geert.
• Widmalm, Sven.

Series:

• Routledge Studies in Cultural History
• Routledge studies in cultural history, 1404-7586 ; 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• World War (1914-1918).
• Neutrality--Europe--History--20th century.
• Science--Europe--International cooperation--History--20th century.
• Science--Political aspects--Europe--History--20th century.
• Nobel Prizes--History--20th century.
• World War, 1914-1918--Influence.
• Europe--History--1918-1945.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (367 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Whether in science or in international politics, neutrality has sometimes been promoted, not only as a viable political alternative but as a lofty ideal - in politics by nations proclaiming their peacefulness, in science as an underpinning of epistemology, in journalism and other intellectual pursuits as a foundation of a professional ethos. Time and again scientists and other intellectuals have claimed their endeavors to be neutral, elevated above the world of partisan conflict and power politics. This volume studies the resonances between neutrality in science and culture and neutrality i

Contents:

• Introduction / Rebecka Lettevall, Geert Somsen, and Sven Widmalm
• Probing the master narrative of scientific internationalism : nationals and neutrals in the 1920s / Brigitte Schroeder
• "Holland's calling" : Dutch scientists' self-fashioning as international mediators / Geert Somsen
• "A superior type of universal civilisation" : science as politics in Sweden, 1917-1926 / Sven Widmalm
• "Has the Swedish Academy of Sciences seen nothing, heard nothing, and understood nothing?" : the First World War, biased neutrality, and the Nobel Prizes in science / Robert Marc Friedman
• Pursuing common cultural ideals : Niels Bohr, neutrality, and international scientific collaboration during the inter-war period / Henrik Knudsen and Henry Nielsen
• Caught-up by politics : the Solvay Councils on Physics and the trials of neutrality / Kenneth Bertrams
• The scientific construction of Swiss neutrality / Daniel Speich Chasse
• A castle in the centre : the first Czechoslovak republic and European cooperation (1918-1938) / Carlos Reijnen
• Prague zionism, the Czechoslovak state, and the rise of German national socialism : the figure of Max Brod (1914-1933) / Gaëlle Vassogne
• Legitimacy through neutrality : resources of journalism in the international press visit to Sweden in 1923 / Patrik Lundell
• Of twins and time: scientists, intellectual cooperation, and the League of Nations / Jimena Canales
• Eye-deep in Hell : Heinrich Lammasch, the Confederation of Neutral States, and Austrian neutrality, 1899-1920 / Georg Cavallar
• Nobel science of peace : Norwegian neutrality, internationalism and the Nobel Peace Prize / Vidar Enebakk
• Neutrality and humanitarianism : Fridtjof Nansen and the Nansen passports / Rebecka Lettevall.

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

• 1-136-30055-4
• 1-283-58568-5
• 9786613898135
• 0-203-11679-8
• 1-136-30056-2

OCLC:

811503013